SIX PERSONS KILLED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19045, 15 December 1923, Page 10

SIX PERSONS KILLED

A HUSBAND’S REVENGE. TRAGEDY IN VIENNA. VIENNA/ December L Murderous hate—hate born of a wife s faithlessness, biding its time till it struck and slew—is the motive of a real ate ©tors* from Vienna. Michael Hodotschenko had fled from Russia after the Bolshevik revolution to find safety for himself and his beautiful young wife in tho town of JNovisad,, m Southern Jtigo-Slavia. had httte money, but he obtained a position ater a while in a restaurant, where he played in the orchestra. So did his wife.

What gave Michael his first glimpse of the intimacy which gradually arose between his wife and the big, too-friendly conductor o 4 the orchestra is not known, but the realisation stunjg his heart to madness. He said nothing of his discovery, waiting his opportunity lor revenge. . One evening he was absent from the restaurant. Towards midnight lie entered, and took a seat at a table near the orchestra. As the last stroke of 12 died away he swallowed his glass of wine at a • pulp and stood up. His wife’s scream as the heavy revolver glittered in his hand was drowned in the roar of the shot, and she fe l ! 'dead. Her lover crashed to the floor with the second explosion. Amid a pandemonium of shrieks and Veils from the occupants of the restaurant, the other members of the orchestra attempted to sieze the_ triumphant assassin. live in succession paid for the attempt with their lives, three being killed outright, while two others died after their removal to the hosnital. Then, his ammunition exhausted, the murderer turned his last shot on himself, and fell dead amid the corpses of his victims.